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Yes, there should only be one law - don't break the law. Then the popo & judge can make it up on the fly.
Make America the Land of the Free & the Home of the Brave againOriginally Posted by Swordsmyth
Could you be more specific?Does law suffer because it tries to be too specific?
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Have you seen the IRS code?
These highly trained professionals know a criminal when they see one.
Make America the Land of the Free & the Home of the Brave again
Complexity is not the same as specificity.
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
IRS code is not specific?
Last edited by timosman; 09-09-2018 at 12:48 AM.
Complexity is bad, it creates a need for an interpretive class subjugating common people.
Specificity is nice clear plain language lets you know when you are doing some thing illegal and when you are not.
On the other hand the NAP suffers fatally from being too specific. It sounds very general but each term in it is highly interpreted and far removed from plain language.
In New Zealand:
The Coastguard is a Charity
Air Traffic Control is a private company run on user fees
The DMV is a private non-profit
Rescue helicopters and ambulances are operated by charities and are plastered with corporate logos
The agriculture industry has zero subsidies
5% of the national vote, gets you 5 seats in Parliament
A tax return has 4 fields
Business licenses aren't a thing
Prostitution is legal
We have a constitutional right to refuse any type of medical care
Specific things, because life is complex complexity and specificity are related but they are still different and it is the complexity that is the problem, most laws are not like an income tax and don't deal with so many different aspects of life therefore they can be far more specific without becoming excessively complex.What do you think this complexity describes?
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
I should have made it about IRS.
In many places it is but in many places it is not, it is definitely too complex.IRS code is not specific?
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
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